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Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the UK, employing over 20,000 staff.

We are responsible for running a family of nine hospitals across six separate sites, providing a wide range of services from comprehensive local general hospital care through to highly specialised regional and national services.

We are the main provider of hospital care to approximately 750,000 people in Manchester and Trafford and the single biggest provider of specialised services in the North West of England. We are also the lead provider for a significant number of specialised services including Breast Care, Vascular, Cardiac, Respiratory, Urology, Cancer, Paediatrics, Women’s Services, Ophthalmology and Genomic Medicine.

Our vision is to improve the health and quality of life of our diverse population by building an organisation that:

Do you want to be part of one of the largest Virology departments in the UK working as a Senior Biomedical Scientist? Then we are looking for you!

Employed by Manchester Foundation Trust you'll be working within The Manchester Medical Microbiology Partnership (MMMP) a collaboration between Manchester University Foundation Trust (MFT) and Public Health England (PHE) you'll join over 350 staff working in the Bacteriology and Virology departments. The Virology team provide testing for over a 1,000,000 specimens per annum not only from the Manchester Royal Infirmary site, but also supporting services across Greater Manchester, the North West region and nationally. Using state of the art platforms and systems to provide serological and molecular testing as well as providing Public Health services as one of the PHEs regional reference centres.

The department embraces all aspects of a modern clinical virology service combining traditional methodologies with laboratory automation. It has a friendly atmosphere with good team spirit and offers the opportunity for you to develop personally and professionally working closely with colleagues in Biochemistry on the largest tracked system in Europe, Cytology with molecular testing for HPV by primary screening and the wider PHE community supporting national initiatives and Public Health support nationally.

The department is a designated IBMS training laboratory and has an extensive quality system in operation fully accredited by UKAS to ISO15189.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated HCPC registered BMS with extensive post-registration experience at senior level with an excellent understanding of clinical Virology. Experience using automated molecular and serology analysers and knowlegde of the methodologies and techniques involved is essential. The post holder will work as part of the laboratory team, ensuring quality and effective delivery of outcomes to maintain the highest level of service to provide patients and services with the high quality support they deserve.

Evidence of previous supervision, experience of health and safety and quality systems are essential as you will be responsible for effectively managing staff in large sections of the department. Good communication skills are essential for effective communication with senior colleagues and clinical staff both within the partnership but also within the Division of Laboratory Medicine and across PHE as well as within your immediate team.

Candidates will be encouraged to take a role in the development of training plans for all grades of staff as candidates will be expected to assist in the delivery of departmental training plans and competency assesment.

Opportunities for CPD are actively encouraged and supported

You should be a good team player with excellent interpersonal skills.

The department requires staff to support the department in delivering a comprehensive Virology service over 7 days. To achieve this you will be expected to support an out of hours on call service enabling maintenance of a 24 hours a day / 7days per week service.

The successful candidate will be expected to work 37.5 hours flexibly between 8am - 8pm Mon - Sun

If you match the requirements above and are keen to join us then we look forward to meeting you.

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

We may decide to close this vacancy earlier than the published closing date if sufficient applications are received.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £29.50(standard disclosure) or £47.50 (enhanced disclosure) Which will be deducted from salary, in the first 3 months of employment. If you wish to withdraw once a DBS application has commenced you will be still liable for payment.

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post.

Please be aware that all roles at MFT(with exception Medical and Dental Staff) are subject to a probationary period.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0161 276 5137 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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